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Adding SATA card to UDMA/133 motherboard worth it?
I need a new hard drive and would like to know if I get a SATA card
and a SATA II hard drive if it will be a noticeable gain over my current UDMA 133 drives? Does having the SATA port on the motherboard as opposed to a card make a difference? Thanks. |
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Adding SATA card to UDMA/133 motherboard worth it?
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
... wrote: I need a new hard drive and would like to know if I get a SATA card and a SATA II hard drive if it will be a noticeable gain over my current UDMA 133 drives? You will get a noticeable gain with a current hard drive, but there is no performance advantage with sata, it just gives you more future when you move to a new motherboard. Current new motherboards mostly only support a pair of UDMA drives, and you normally need one for an optical drive. Do you mean IDE drives there? Even SATA drives support UDMA |
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Adding SATA card to UDMA/133 motherboard worth it?
SteveH wrote
Rod Speed wrote wrote I need a new hard drive and would like to know if I get a SATA card and a SATA II hard drive if it will be a noticeable gain over my current UDMA 133 drives? You will get a noticeable gain with a current hard drive, but there is no performance advantage with sata, it just gives you more future when you move to a new motherboard. Current new motherboards mostly only support a pair of UDMA drives, and you normally need one for an optical drive. Do you mean IDE drives there? Nope, I meant UDMA. Thats how a number of motherboard manufacturers list the drives supported, so I used his terminology because that is likely to be where he got his terminology from. Even SATA drives support UDMA Duh. |
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Adding SATA card to UDMA/133 motherboard worth it?
On Feb 6, 6:48 pm, "Rod Speed" wrote:
SteveH wrote Rod Speed wrote wrote I need a new hard drive and would like to know if I get a SATA card and a SATA II hard drive if it will be a noticeable gain over my current UDMA 133 drives? You will get a noticeable gain with a current hard drive, but there is no performance advantage with sata, it just gives you more future when you move to a new motherboard. Current new motherboards mostly only support a pair of UDMA drives, and you normally need one for an optical drive. Do you mean IDE drives there? Nope, I meant UDMA. Thats how a number of motherboard manufacturers list the drives supported, so I used his terminology because that is likely to be where he got his terminology from. Even SATA drives support UDMA Duh. So it is worth adding a SATA II pci card instead of getting a new motherboard that has the SATA ports already? |
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On Feb 7, 11:07 am, fwibbler -
online.co.uk wrote: wrote: I need a new hard drive and would like to know if I get a SATA card and a SATA II hard drive if it will be a noticeable gain over my current UDMA 133 drives? Does having the SATA port on the motherboard as opposed to a card make a difference? Thanks. If your current drives are old and slow then any new drive will be an improvement whether it be IDE or SATA. If your board has SATA ports then use them. Usually these can take full advantage of the SATA speed transfers. PCI SATA cards are theoretically limited by the PCI bus speed (max 133MB/s) In reality, 133MB/s will never be reached and will make little difference. Cheers! -- Graham Website -http://www.thedeathzone.free-online.co.uk Thats what I was looking for. Thanks. |
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